Kate MacGarry

RAGGED

10 Nov - 19 Dec 2006

RAGGEDSelected by Josh Blackwell

For this group show, artist Josh Blackwell brings together the work of eleven emerging and established artists from the United States.

RAGGED seeks to consider and conflate the physical and psychological routines of the everyday. Exploring relationships between collage, appropriation, found objects and imagery (as art historical categories and also as contemporaneous emotional and social conditions) the exhibition embraces a broad range of approaches and methodologies, including painting, sculpture, drawing, and video. RAGGED brings together an inter-generational group of artists whose work explores-and explodes-vernacular materials and forms. Self-consciously located at a threshold between abstraction and representation, the works in the exhibition variously consider the entanglements between interiority and exteriority, the organic and the inorganic, and between the acts of rupture and reconciliation.

MATT CONNORS (b 1973 USA) currently lives in Berlin, recent exhibitions include CMYK, Canada, New York and Turn the Beat Around, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York

ANNE EASTMAN (b.1973 San Francisco) lives and works in New York, recent exhibitions include The Future is Blind, Peekskill Project, New York and Smoking Mirrors, China Art Objects, Los Angeles.

EMILIE HALPERN (b. 1976 Paris) lives in Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at Anna Helwing, Los Angeles and group shows at The Breeder, Athens, Casey Kaplan, New York and ACME in Los Angeles.

JUDY LEDGERWOOD (b. 1959 Indiana) lives in Chicago. Forthcoming projects include a solo exhibition at Tracy Williams, New York in 2007.